Pours a much lighter, cloudy gold in color than I was expecting. I was expecting something more along the lines of a Korbinian. This is more like a amped up Hefe. Huge, pillowy head on the pour. Plenty of the banana and clove in the nose and flavor. Some hops show up in the taste to help out. Decent beer, but it's a Hefe! (323 characters)

16.9 oz bottle poured into my snifter. Every beer store around here seems to carry Weihenstephaner, but never Vitus, so I'm glad I got to try it finally.

A - good looking beer, super light, big head on the forced pour. An inch or two of foam recedes slowly. Settles deep yellow and light brown in the glass. Cloudy on the pour, even more opaque in the glass.

S - Sweet, sticky notes on the nose. I have a difficult time discerning the smells here, but there's a distinctive sourness on the end of the nose, fruity, yet viscous. Not altogether pleasant though.

T - I'm not too sure about this. Some of the sweet notes get lost in the acidity. The yeast strain is awfully similar to some American-made Belgian pales I've had, which I'm not a huge fan of. I do get some of the bubblegum that other reviewers described. Wheaty.

M - decent, a little sour and acidic. The alcohol doesn't really play a role here.

O - I'm not a huge fan of Weihenstephaner beers, but I think that it just must be the beer styles, lagers, whatever, that I don't like. Because I can tell that this is exemplary of its style. Flavorful and a full bouquet, but not my cup of tea. (1,157 characters)

Appearance: Shock. Being a weizenbock I was expecting something much darker, maybe it was the brown bottle, but this isn't of the double bock variety, definitely just single bock strength. I couldn't believe it when the beer poured a lighter color, more in common with a hefeweizen. Still, the cloudy golden appearance looked quite nice and the head was massive.

Smell: Following the look of a hefeweizen it certainly smells like a hefeweizen. The aroma is heavy on the clove.

Taste: Like a hefeweizen on overdrive. Bright fruit flavor with heaps of clove spice.

Mouthfeel: Well carbonated with a surprisingly light body. Works well.

Drinkability: Came for the weizenbock, stayed for the frankenstein hefeweizen. A bold beer, fans of either style should try this. (768 characters)

Deep, hazy gold color with a thick white head that is rather short lasting. Suprising that the foam dissipates so quickly as there are almost violent streams of carbonation erupting continuously upward throughout the experience. Interesting malty nose with hints of banana and tropical fruit plus a buttered popcorn toastiness. Lightly phenolic, not very sweet.

The taste is complex with a toasted grain and wheat maltiness. Light spice in the mix, with a moderate bitterness that helps provide some balance. This is very different to me as I was expecting something more like an Aventinus. The body runs a bit light but there is plenty of bubbly carbonation shining through.

Overall a unique German beer. I'm still not completely sure what to think of it. The malt flavors got a bit cloying toward the end, so perhaps a smaller seving size would be in order (I had full pint). Definitely worth trying... (908 characters)

Smell was the standard yeasty-wheat I would expect from Weihenstephan. A slight peppery aroma poked around as well.

The wheat malt stood out over any hops but didn't overpower. The residual sweetness was pleasant and any sign of noble hops was absent. The yeasty pepper-ness, almost similar to a Belgian Wit came through on the end, just as in the aroma.

Perfect carbonation with medium body and crisp easy finish.

This is the type of beer you would ask "noch eins bitte!" Perfect anytime of year, session or with food. (699 characters)

Appearance: Tons of pale, foamy clumps of lace left in the wake of a pale, foamy, clumpy head. The body of this beer is beautiful - a hazy, wispy, orange-yellow brew (MUCH lighter than most weizenbocks) with tons of crisp, pinpoint effervescence, boiling up from the bottoms of the glass. Magnificent.

Aroma: Very pungent. Lots of weizen notes and yeast notes - crisp, faintly-sweet wheat malt, the banana and cloves/coriander one-two, a decent orange zest presence, some spicy, floral yeast and malt notes, stronger than usual for the style. On the other hand, it may not be that the hops are more prominent, but instead that the malts and yeast notes are less complex, allowing the hops to come through a little more. I'll assume it's a little of both.

Taste: Not too much difference from the nose here. A very sweet wheat backbone, banana esters mix will with some lighter fruity sweetness (pineapple, perhaps), spicy yeast notes, a mild hop bitterness, and some earthy hop notes. Alcohol is barely noticeable. Much lighter than other Weizenbocks - sort of like a pumped up hefeweizen, really.

Mouthfeel: Crisp, but medium-bodied and even-profiled, resulting in a thick, silky texture that works well with the stylistic interpretation - it's a little lighter than most weizenbocks, but so is everything else here. Good call.

Drinkability: Overall, pretty good - alcohol's hidden well and isn't out of this world (7.7%), everything tastes and smells great, and it's very crisp and creamy - good, easygoing summer drink.

is a good drink, but, truth be told, it's not much of a weizenbock. It's more like a slightly-hyped up hefewiezen. Very interesting, though - this brew and the Aventinus mark the borders of the style, and they're both lovely in their own unique ways. Recommended. (1,824 characters)

served a mug with a small to medium head and no lace. Aroma is heavy traditional Bavarian Weizen - pungent, sweet-sour, fruity, malty, und vundrerbar! Color is a hazy light to medium-light amber. Flavor is prominently a pungent malt with lemony citrus character. Hardly any hop. Finish is like regular flav. One of the richest, most full flavored weizens. Perhaps a session. (374 characters)

Weizenbock has recently become one of my favorite styles. The fact that this brewery has decided to produce one is awesome. Poured in to a weizen glass a murky orange, with a large white head that dissolved very quickly. Aroma is very clean, with bits of bread, clove and banana. Taste is round and tasty, with more bread and banana coming through. This one seems a little bit light for the style in body, but at the same time the alcohol does not show itself at all. This would make a nice session beer. Maybe not the best Weizenbock I have tasted, but certainly an interesting one. (583 characters)

A yellow, murky beer with a big frothy head that last the entire glass and settles into whipped cream and leaves beautiful lacing on the glass.

Smell is phenolic, vanilla and bamana. Some exotic fruit and a nice smooth wheat smell.

Taste of a strong Weizen, phenolic yeast with moderate bananas and little clove. Alcohol is not strong. Bitterness is very low. A good solid strong Weizenbock, which should have had a little caramel malt in there, but apparently my thoughts around what a Weizenbock is, are not OK. Still I think a Weizenbock is dark. (552 characters)

While a very impressive and enjoyable beer, it did miss out on some key aspects of the weizenbock style (In studying, i am reviewing according to BJCP style guidelines). The color was truly light for the style, and the aroma and flavor lacked the bock-like qualities inherent with weizenbocks. It did however have a wonderful balance of spicy clove, fruit, malt and alcohol. It drank more like a double hefe, if such a style exists. It pains me to grade this the way I did, but again, i was adhereing to BJCP guidelines, and have to judge accordingly. It really is a great beer, and thus gets the 9 on the overall, regardless that it falls out of style (subjective component) (4.5 / 9)

look ~ pours a lot lighter than most weizenbocks I've seen, it pours a rich gold. Very opaque. Good head: rises pretty big of a hard pour; white and moussy; falls slowly to a cap that lasts; and, leaves some really nice lacing. All-in-all, it looks more like a hefeweizen than a weizenbock.

smell ~ good smell. I get a zesty yeast profile that has some citrus that comes along with a more the banana-clove smell I'd usually associate with a hefeweizen. I don't really get all that much of the aroma that sets a weizenbock apart: not a whole lot of melanoidin or more complicated spices (vanilla, pepper, etc) here. No real hop aroma, no alcohol.

taste ~ the palate gives me more of what I'd expect from a weizenbock. The grainbill is better: it has a lot of wheat graininess; some vienna and/or munich with it, which gives a bit of melanoidin although it is very light; no real dark fruit flavors. The yeast flavor is pretty much the same citrusy banana-clove blend, I get a bit more spice on the palate though. Bitterness is good for balance, but no real hop taste.

feel ~ good feel. Light body and good carbonation. No real heat or astringency.

Overall, I think this seems a little more like a strong hefeweizen than a true weizenbock. On the website they describe this as a single bock weizen. It really doesn't do what I think a weizenbock should, which is marry a doppelbock and a dunkelweizen. Nonetheless, a great flavor that I really enjoy!!! (1,454 characters)

A: lovely straw yellow, with a gorgeous white foam headS: spices, clove, cinnamon and some banana, along with a saltine cracker like malt.T: clove and cinnamon at the forefront. I don't get the fruit so many others do, and my review reflects both that and my general dislike of clove flavors. The malt comes through in a cracker-biscuit way.M: stellar. 5 stars easily here. Carbonation is high, but the bubbles are tiny. It's amazingly effervescent. O: a gorgeously crafted beer by all accounts. If you like the spicy flavors, clove in particular, this is a must try. For the style, this is amazing, I just don't care for the style. (643 characters)

A: opaque, orange, with head that dissipates over short timeS: clovesT: banana, cloves, orange peel sourness and fruitiness and herbal (hops) bitternessM: light and refreshingO: a great refreshing beer, as a hefe should, and does not feel strong on the sips. very balanced indeed. (284 characters)

Poured a light and hazy orange tone, much like their Hefeweissbier. In fact, despite minor differences, the two are very similar. A creamy head of foam forms, but unfortunately diminshes to a thin ring with no lacing.

Estery, some alcohol in the nose, but masked by clove and wheatiness.

Taste is much like the Hefe again, a bit fuller mouthfeel with stronger alcohol presence. Clove and banana mostly, fairly juicy mouthfeel. Creamy as well, as to be expected from the brewery's other offerings. Not the full-bodied robustness expected of Weizenbocks like Aventinus. It would be great in the spring or summer, but just not the big Weizenbock I was expecting on a cool fall night. (684 characters)